Business energy costs: what moves electricity and gas bills
What the engine tracks for energy costs across the UK, US and India.
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Energy here means the electricity and gas a business buys to run its premises, machinery, heating and refrigeration. This page collects what Atri's engine tracks for this cost: the terms it watches, the benchmarks it checks its calls against, its latest analyses, and how those calls have scored.
What the engine watches for
The engine flags a story for this cost when it names a term such as energy, electricity, wholesale gas, or a named benchmark for the UK, US or India.
The full list of terms
It reads news, regulator notices and official data every day. The full list of terms:
- Anywhere: energy, electricity, wholesale gas, natural gas, gas price, gas prices, power price, power prices, wholesale power, energy bill
- UK: ofgem, price cap, energy price cap, NBP, TTF, day-ahead power, n2ex, EPEX
- US: henry hub, PJM, ercot, wholesale electricity, natural gas spot
- India: power tariff, coal india, e-auction, notified price, discom, electricity tariff
The benchmarks calls are checked against
Calls on this cost are graded against published series. The latest: UK: GB wholesale electricity was 213.9 GBP/MWh for 1 Nov 2026 (source: Elexon (GB electricity market data)); US electricity price (BLS, city avg) was 0.196 USD/kWh for 1 Sept 2026 (source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)).
Every benchmark series, by region
Each call is graded against the series for the story's region. Where no series is wired, the call is counted but not graded.
| Input | UK | US | India |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | GB wholesale electricity 213.9 GBP/MWh for 1 Nov 2026 (source: Elexon (GB electricity market data)) | US electricity price (BLS, city avg) 0.196 USD/kWh for 1 Sept 2026 (source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)) | No benchmark wired yet |
Latest analyses on energy costs
No indexed analysis names this cost right now. The engine keeps watching; new analyses appear here as they are published.
More briefings by region: UK early warnings · US early warnings · India briefings (informational only).
How the engine's calls on this cost have scored
Not enough graded calls yet to show a hit rate: 2 graded so far, 2 pending.
By input, and how calls are graded
- Energy: Not enough graded calls yet: 2 graded so far, 2 pending.
Every cost call is dated when it is published and graded against a published benchmark series once its period ends. No hit rate is shown for fewer than 30 graded calls. How calls are graded.
How this analysis was produced
- Data sources
- GB wholesale electricity: Elexon (GB electricity market data); US electricity price (BLS, city avg): Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED); Atri engine: indexed analyses and the public track record
- What the AI did
- No AI wrote this page. It is assembled automatically from the engine: the terms its matcher watches, the benchmark series and their latest published values, the indexed analyses (each written by an AI model, with its own disclosure) and the graded track record.
- Checked automatically
- only indexed analyses are listed; no hit rate under 30 graded calls; figures are quoted as published, with the period they cover.
- What people did
- People chose the benchmark series and the terms. No person reviews this page before it changes.
- Data as of
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